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.jpg "Commander Lagree receiving the chief of the monks at Stung Treng, Cambodia by Louis Delaporte")
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Louis Delaporte led an adventurous life from the very beginning. As the son of a lawyer, he was supposed to have studied law. But with the hard-won approval of his father, he decided on a career at sea. After the military academy in Brest, he was accepted as a naval cadet in the French navy in 1860 and was immediately assigned to Mexico. Further expeditions followed, including one to Iceland, and he eventually became a lieutenant at sea. Thus he could have continued to climb the career ladder within the navy. But Louis Delaporte possessed a talent that enabled him to do more than become an officer. He was an excellent draftsman. And that's why he was sent to Cochinchina. This was the name given at that time to that French colony that encompassed southern Vietnam and parts of eastern Cambodia.
There, the young Louis was to accompany the explorer Ernest Doudart de Lagrée on his mission, which was to explore the Mekong River. However, due to climatic conditions, the expedition ended in tragedy: Ernest Doudart de Lagrée died and they only made it back to the sea via the Yangtze River at all. The fact that the journey remained in Louis Delaporte's memory was not only due to the unfortunate circumstances. During his stay in Cambodia, he had also been able to locate the ruins of the ancient Khmer city of Angkor. And the sight of them never left him. From then on, he devoted his entire life to researching the Khmer empire, which he compared to ancient Egypt, and to preserving the temples of Angkor. It is also thanks to him that Khmer art and architecture became known in Europe at all. He shipped hundreds of crates of artifacts from the ancient advanced civilization to France and - after the Louvre refused to display the strange exhibits - set up his own official museum of Khmer art. Gradually, the collection at the Trocadéro then opened up to art from all over Southeast Asia.
Seen in this light, Louis Delaporte was more of a researcher, curator and museum director than an artist. But his research included making accurate drawings of the stone witnesses at Angkor and later at Bayon. And these are of such great artistry that they still hang in numerous museums and collections today. They show not only cult and cultural sites, but also scenes from the everyday life of the population in bright colors. The viewer is allowed to immerse himself in an exotic world, its customs, celebrations, rituals and traditions. He sees what Delaporte saw 150 years ago and is now long lost. But his art historical legacy goes far beyond the drawings and paintings he left behind. Thanks to his sketches and chalk drawings of buildings, sculptures and reliefs at Angkor Wat and other Khmer holy sites, contemporary archaeologists and restorers are now able to reconstruct destroyed or missing parts of temples and pagodas.
Louis Delaporte led an adventurous life from the very beginning. As the son of a lawyer, he was supposed to have studied law. But with the hard-won approval of his father, he decided on a career at sea. After the military academy in Brest, he was accepted as a naval cadet in the French navy in 1860 and was immediately assigned to Mexico. Further expeditions followed, including one to Iceland, and he eventually became a lieutenant at sea. Thus he could have continued to climb the career ladder within the navy. But Louis Delaporte possessed a talent that enabled him to do more than become an officer. He was an excellent draftsman. And that's why he was sent to Cochinchina. This was the name given at that time to that French colony that encompassed southern Vietnam and parts of eastern Cambodia.
There, the young Louis was to accompany the explorer Ernest Doudart de Lagrée on his mission, which was to explore the Mekong River. However, due to climatic conditions, the expedition ended in tragedy: Ernest Doudart de Lagrée died and they only made it back to the sea via the Yangtze River at all. The fact that the journey remained in Louis Delaporte's memory was not only due to the unfortunate circumstances. During his stay in Cambodia, he had also been able to locate the ruins of the ancient Khmer city of Angkor. And the sight of them never left him. From then on, he devoted his entire life to researching the Khmer empire, which he compared to ancient Egypt, and to preserving the temples of Angkor. It is also thanks to him that Khmer art and architecture became known in Europe at all. He shipped hundreds of crates of artifacts from the ancient advanced civilization to France and - after the Louvre refused to display the strange exhibits - set up his own official museum of Khmer art. Gradually, the collection at the Trocadéro then opened up to art from all over Southeast Asia.
Seen in this light, Louis Delaporte was more of a researcher, curator and museum director than an artist. But his research included making accurate drawings of the stone witnesses at Angkor and later at Bayon. And these are of such great artistry that they still hang in numerous museums and collections today. They show not only cult and cultural sites, but also scenes from the everyday life of the population in bright colors. The viewer is allowed to immerse himself in an exotic world, its customs, celebrations, rituals and traditions. He sees what Delaporte saw 150 years ago and is now long lost. But his art historical legacy goes far beyond the drawings and paintings he left behind. Thanks to his sketches and chalk drawings of buildings, sculptures and reliefs at Angkor Wat and other Khmer holy sites, contemporary archaeologists and restorers are now able to reconstruct destroyed or missing parts of temples and pagodas.
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